The Driving Experience
January 20th, 2010
We all know that cars are a few pennies more than most of us have in our pockets on a daily basis. But, a wise man once said… No matter how much you paid for the car, they all end up looking the same after the wreck. So why do we put soooo much emphasis on a “pretty” car?
Sure, they look cool. We look like we have money if we have a car that’s a nice pretty shiny penny.
Whether you have a beat up Nissan Altima or a Porche, they all get hit the same way, they all drive, and each one gets you from point A to point B.
My little cousin is turning 16 this Saturday and I don’t think I want her on the roads just yet… LOL. She is one of those ditsy blondes who can’t spell selling like I was talking about in a previous Wednesday Wisdom. She went looking for cars with her parents last week and they looked at just about every car you can think of. The Ford Taurus, the Dodge Neon, some trucks, some type of Subaru, and a Mitsubishi Evolution. Of course, her being a 16 year old, she was very picky about what the car LOOKED like. She is SIXTEEN. She shouldn’t be allowed to be picky!! When I was 16 I didn’t get a car. I got it later on and it was given to me. Actually by my wonderful grandparents and aunts who you all love to read so much!! 
I didn’t get to choose or be picky. When you are 16 you don’t need a fancy, high tech, shiny car. You don’t. You need something that you can LEARN in and experience in. Just in case of course.
So anyway, she goes Saturday to get her license. I think they may have decided on a truck which I am perfectly ok with for her because she is small and the truck is safer. Have any of you experienced a teenage driving experience. Kids, neices, nephew, etc?? Well let’s see some comments and I’ll talk to you guys next week!! 
Toodles!
iCarly
September 5th, 2009
In case you have never seen it, iCarly is a TV series about 3 teenagers who make a web-show. They do it on their own without any adult assistance. They use technology like green screens, video camera, a sound effect machine and computers. There are no rules when it comes to their web-show titled “iCarly”. Every web-show focuses on something new and they try their best to do funny and outrageous things to attract more viewers. Sometimes landing themselves in a mess. iCarly has grown into TV’s No. 1 series among kids (ages 2 to 11) and tweens (ages 9 to 14), drawing an average 5.6 total million viewers to new episodes. So how did Carly do it? She’s got the Web working with her instead of against her.
By design, “iCarly” is the only kids’ show plugged seamlessly into the online world, a playing field populated by blurbs of random, often outrageous comedy. Series creator Dan Schneider has been savvy enough to plot the “iCarly” Web segments as randomly as any teen would their YouTube channel.
During the show-within-a-show webcasts, which the characters film in Carly’s attic, Carly and her friend Sam (Jennette McCurdy) demonstrate making chicken soup in a toilet. They create trailers spoofing teen movies (you can actually find “Kelly Cooper, Terrible Movie” making the rounds on YouTube). They morph Carly’s head on to a picture of Sam’s rabid cat. They improvise short sketches with names like “The Cowboy With a Mustache and the Idiot Farm Girl Who Thought the Mustache Was a Squirrel.”And, iCarly also has it’s own real website where you can read blogs, see photos, play games, send in your own videos and watch bonus videos that are not on the TV show.
iCarly: Season 2, Volume 1 (Nickelodeon)
In Stores: 8/18/09
Carly, Sam and Freddie keep the camera and the laughs rolling in an all new season of Nickelodeon’s hit show-within-a-show — iCarly: Season 2, Volume 1 on DVD. Starring tween sensation Miranda Cosgrove, the latest installment of the groundbreaking series finds Carly and Sam vying for the same guy, iCarly’s first web award nomination and the kiss that shocked the world - all while crankin’ out the best web show out there on iCarly.com! Created by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, iCarly Season 2, Volume 1 will be available August 18, 2009, for the suggested retail price of $26.99.
iCarly Season 1, Volume 2 features 12 new-to-DVD episodes, along with the making of the first iCarly TV movie “iGo To Japan” and behind-the-scenes extras. The set also includes an exclusive CD single featuring a song from Miranda Cosgrove’s new album hitting stores later this year.
I have to say…We all LOVE iCarly. And have since the first time that we saw it. iCarly is just a great show that is funny, yet wholesome…a great all around show that even as an adult I like, but the kids love…and in this house, that is rare to find.
We have already watched these DVD’s over and over again. Call us addicted, but you can bet that at least once a day iCarly:Season 2, Vol.1 will be on and kids will be laughing. Thanks Nickelodeon for such a great show!
Total Drama Island: The Complete Season
August 30th, 2009Not sure what Total Drama Island is? Then you must not have a tween. Because almost every kid I know anywhere near that age watches “TDI”. When the complete DVD set arrived at our house…chaos ensued. There was a marathon of “TDI” watching going on, phone calls being made. Then, other peoples kids started arriving to watch. Popcorn was everywhere. The funny thing was that everyone of the kids refer to it as “TDI” and you would have thought some of the cast was their real friends the way they talk about them.
Total Drama Island is about a group of contestants that are placed in a remote location, with cameras filming their every move. Every couple of days, the loosing team must vote out one of their own. The last one remaining takes home an enormous cash prize. The contestants compete in a series of challenges, sometimes for a reward, and sometimes for immunity from getting voted out. The competition is overseen by a host, who often announces changes or alterations to the rules as the game goes on…or as a whim hits him. That’s the premise of Total Drama Island, with a summer camp filling in for the remote location. Only this isn’t a reality show like Survivor. It’s an animated spoof of such shows, one that is so spot on, you might forget it’s a cartoon.
The complete Total Drama Island DVD set features nearly 600 minutes of episodes. That is all 27 episodes of non-stop action along with bonus features including cast interviews and an alternate ending.
Total Drama Island can be seen on Cartoon Network.
The Complete Set:
Disc #1 — Total Drama Island: The Complete Season
Not So Happy Campers Part 1
Not So Happy Campers Part 2
The Big Sleep
Dodgebrawl
Not Quite Famous
The Sucky Outdoors
Phobia Factor
Disc #2 — Total Drama Island: The Complete Season
Up the Creek
Paintball Deer Hunter
If You Can’t Take the Heat
Who Can You Trust?
Basic Straining
X-Treme Torture
Brunch of Disgustingness
Disc #3 — Total Drama Island: The Complete Season
No Pain, No Game
Search and Do Not Destroy
Hide and Be Sneaky
That’s Off the Chain!
Hook, Line and Screamer
Wawanakwa Gone Wild!
Trial by Tri-Armed Triathalon
Disc #4 — Total Drama Island: The Complete Season
After the Dock of Shame
Camp Castaways
Are We There, Yeti?
I Triple Dog Dare You
The Very Last Episode, Really
TDI Rundown
Extras: Cast Interviews
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